A Rare Case of Primary Intracerebral Malignant Melanoma

Malignant melanomas occurring in the central nervous system are mostly metastatic. Primary intracranial malignant melanomas are a rare entity, accounting for 0.07% of all brain tumors. In the central nervous system, melanocytes originate from the neural crest cells that are found in the leptomeninge...

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Autores principales: Khan, Quratulain, Akhtar, Sana, Khalid, Waleed, Rehman, Anis, Siddique, Kashif
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Radiation Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10493823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37700960
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43359
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author Khan, Quratulain
Akhtar, Sana
Khalid, Waleed
Rehman, Anis
Siddique, Kashif
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description Malignant melanomas occurring in the central nervous system are mostly metastatic. Primary intracranial malignant melanomas are a rare entity, accounting for 0.07% of all brain tumors. In the central nervous system, melanocytes originate from the neural crest cells that are found in the leptomeninges. Only a few cases of malignant melanoma primarily arising from the brain have been reported in the literature to date. We report a rare case of primary intracerebral malignant melanoma in a 39-year-old female. Through this case report, our aim is to highlight the role of imaging in the early diagnosis and management of malignant melanoma.
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spelling pubmed-104938232023-09-12 A Rare Case of Primary Intracerebral Malignant Melanoma Khan, Quratulain Akhtar, Sana Khalid, Waleed Rehman, Anis Siddique, Kashif Cureus Radiation Oncology Malignant melanomas occurring in the central nervous system are mostly metastatic. Primary intracranial malignant melanomas are a rare entity, accounting for 0.07% of all brain tumors. In the central nervous system, melanocytes originate from the neural crest cells that are found in the leptomeninges. Only a few cases of malignant melanoma primarily arising from the brain have been reported in the literature to date. We report a rare case of primary intracerebral malignant melanoma in a 39-year-old female. Through this case report, our aim is to highlight the role of imaging in the early diagnosis and management of malignant melanoma. Cureus 2023-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10493823/ /pubmed/37700960 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43359 Text en Copyright © 2023, Khan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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A Rare Case of Primary Intracerebral Malignant Melanoma
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title_short A Rare Case of Primary Intracerebral Malignant Melanoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10493823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37700960
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43359
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